Especially by an 80m player facing actual amateurs

Lol, it’s very telling that you can’t see how that only makes it fucking worse. It’s his livelihood, his job, that they were deliberately trying to sabotage by injuring him. They, on the other hand, have very little at stake.

Defending implies an attempt to play the ball. Driving a knee into someone’s back with zero attempt to play the ball and a team threatening him with aiming for his knees isn’t defending.

If you didn’t watch the match, what is even the point of your take on it? It wasn’t “rough” defending. They literally talked about wanting to injure him on the pitch among themselves in Italian.

Both Højlund and Kjær speak italian, and they could hear the SM defenders say that they were going to “smash Højlund” and “go for his knees”.

Bro masvidal’d his back. And they allegedly tried to go after his knees.

we are not playing in the 80s now are we?

Good job that was nearly 45 years ago then isn’t it

How dare a non-native english speaker make a tiny error in their spelling

There are a few accounts of several of the Danish players saying they overheard the defenders talking in Italian about aiming for Hojlund’s knees etc, because they weren’t aware that several of the Danes speak fluent italian

San marino’s player(i forget his name) posted on instagram that 80m professional players should be able to handle the physical contact like this. They are not even trying to hide it.